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GRAHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, May 24, 1923.
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NUMBER 3».
HOSING EXERCISES
OF LOME SCHOOLS
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Oak Grove Cemetery
In Good
The well kept appearance of Oak
IIA V Q| Tft IIIIIC A Grove cemetery ia very noticeable.
ImAI ul lU JUIlL A Mr- A* P. Stewart hai given coa-
j aiderable. attention to the cemetery
- for several weeks and it is probably
1 During the i**t days of May and In better condition than ever be-
the first few days of June the clos- fore. A crew of men have been
trig exercises of one of the most busy some time cleaning the lots
successful terms of the Graham and painting the fence. The T-—d»r
schools will jbe held. The members stated some time ago that the ceme-
of the .seniors class are taking the tery had been enlarged. Large num-
final examinations this week, but bers ,<of people have visited the ceme-
the regular examinations’' for all tery during the past few days and
other grades will be held next week, ali^are lqmL iq^their praise of JAft.
as follows: Thursday night May 31, Mr. Stewart states that as soon
graduating exercises for the seventh as a sufficient number buys lots
gTade pupils will be held at both he will begin to level up the new
the East Ward and at the Shawnee addition. He has paid for all work
schools. Friday ni^ht , Jdag- the done thus far, but needs addition-,
first, the senior clasf, play, “Fanny al funds to put the new part in
and the Servant Problem”, will be order. Funds received from the
given at the high school auditorium, sale of lots will be used for this
(Admission to this will be 35 and purpose. See Mr. Stewart for in-
RO cents; benefit library fuhd). The formation about the new lots and
commencement sermon will be then give^hitn a check so that he
preached by Dr. C, R. Taylor at the can put men to work on the new
Methodist church Sunday at 11 a. addition.
m., Junp 3. The graduating exer- —---
cises will be held at the Methodist p ■ Ilf Ann AlirilO
— rhnrrh Monday night, Jlind 4. Rev. f. I Wlllltl ||| f ftIN
Dr. Lockhart of T. C. U. will de- * V ** U
liver the address to the class. >'
Excellent programs have been ar-
__ranged for each exercise and an in^ l
vitation is extended to the public
to attend. Mr. C. A. Russell will1
asJ"SISS
FOR PUBLIC SPARE - FOR FALL SEASON
WHITE LEGHORN
- CHICKEN RANCH
£rT-~TL* ttl, S’’!'" WUrU more hMuliful to .
.".l ° y **<«• Hum to re, 4000
night at the graduating exercises. . .. . . . . „ _ . . .
- * „ ", white chickens in one flock ? Mr-
. Respectfully,
The City Council in its regular With the increased acreage in
meeting last week ^asked for sealed j ct)tton throU|rhout thil 8ection and
with improved railroad facilities, it
is believed that the Graham Cotton
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bids for paving the square. The |
chamber’of commerce has been in-
terested in this proposition for sev-
eral "months'' and. the City Council
has co-operated willingly in every
way1 by passing every measure
jT^ess^y^to^make ^the^paving poa^_£nnulla!ai
paving the entire square is im-
practicable on,, account of the enor-
mous cost. 1 /
The present plan is to pave a
section adjoining the business hous-
es and later to pave another sec-
tion about thirty feet in width fur-
ther out in the square. It is hoped
Oil Company could operate the mill
here profitably this season. Sec-
retary Walker of the Chamber of
holders of the mill to see if plahs
can not; be worked out whereby the
mill can be put in operation this
fall. - - - 7 *— > *'•
We learn from County Agent A.
L. Robertson that he has ordered
something like fifty cars of cake
and meal this season. In addition
to this several cars of hulls and
U-fore twelve months passes by to olher f##d Htuffa have been order_
have a section around the entire^-, u.. u;_ K. . __, ___
square paved.
xsr,**! drilling
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couivrr oil field
The County Trustees Asaocia- [
tlon held its spring iqpetjng in' thej
court house last SafipmUBT- gfternoon.
The meeting should have been held
earlier but the Interscholastic
League had the right of way during
April and as a result the meeting
was postponed until the 19th of
May*
The attendance was not as large
as it* should have been, due rib
doubt to the fact that the farmers
are very busy at this season and al*
„ The, reduction in the price of oil
Is having its effect on future opera-
ioris in this section, however, opera-
tors had outlined an extensive cam-
) paign before the reductions came
and the work is going steadily for-
ward. — ' „
“G. D. Hinson’s TrfcLaren' No. f£-
closed for the term and the trus- ! on the Criswell survey* came in this
tees have to somg extent entered Week at- 2350 feet for irixty barrels.
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‘•q lITst wiiyny of” tlie schools have
into the vacation spirit of the
pupils.
Nearly thirty trustees were pres-
ent and a good meeting was held.
The Hemphitt-Hatfleld No. 1 is
among the producers reported this
week. It is a direct offset to tha
Hemphill on the G. D. Hinson land
ed by him. No doubt general cars
, , have been ordered by individuals.
Graham is probably the largest ^ Robertson jn hi9 nport t0 the
town in Texas without any P*™g., ment recently state8 that the
Th.s cannot be said of Graham long, ^ arrcc lrr the r0unty will
as the work » expected to begin about twenty ^ cent.
‘ The specifications call -for -paving' StpPhens county is als0 pU“ing
... • t a l ,i,.„ a large cotton acreage this year
with reinforced concrete or three- R
inch brick on » concrc.e l,«,7. io" »"d »’,h tb. W.chrt. FWI. »nd
include th.-.t port ortbe i?SiinJi,'llr r''»<l ln
. , . , , _ will have three rail outlets to the
Elm street from Third street to the ■ . .
,, . cotton sections. Large trucks oper-
i “>rs 'm^j^m**** ^
O. K. Freeman ... elected pr«i- ,nd ,, m>kin, 60 b,rrel, ,t 2350
dent for the ensuing year. E. M. I fg-t
BaU was elected vice president and I The Seaboard 0il and Gag
Edwm Hill re-elected as secretary. | pany has finished |u Whittenbur|f
The next meeting will be held ; No { {q[ ^ RR<J ^ drUlh|fc
while the Teachers Instrtutc to m No 2 at 3300 fppt
session next December. | „
. j The Texas Company gave its
Jake Jones No. 4 a 30-quart shot
and it is reported making 40
barrels.
Miller et al have a rig up on its
GRAHAM LIONS PLAN
ACTIVE PROGRAM FOR
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
Third' street.
A certified chec^C>for 5 per cent
of, the bid must accompany each
]i H. B. COGDELL, Sup’t.
The following compose the senior
class this session:
C. L. Wood, our successful light proposal to assure that, if success-
man, has opened a chicken ranch
the City Council to reject any and
all bids and to waive aside Any
technicality. The proposal# are to
be1 submitted with the name of the
fon the Norris place just north of
JBin. Duacrun, Bowumu* B»r- ‘ ’p-1 °'ty-Mr’ ■‘-J**: TutU';
Suott, Wine. Liale, Em. ^,ct!n *r* “ 'th*r"
TI . , . .. T ' his farm. He has been tn the
H u s t e d, Elizabeth Johnson,.., ... , ,
chicken business only a short time
M.ry Th»m„. _L.~ta. Mill.- ,nd h„ ye, hi,
1 necessary equipment but hopoa to bidder on the outside and addressed
Sr^iL i&lry ~ —r da C.rk. On*-, tan
Margaret McNamara, Frances Bell, *°?T *1. *’ . ... .
Curtis Dickenson, V.ld. Thomas, . ^ ***** ln
„ , _ ’ ,, , „ ’ Leghorns, but has a few White
Hazel Ellis, Dorothy Vaughan, Kate ... . ^ . .
D , . ’ , . . - r r ■ A. ^ Wyandottes. The farm was stock-
Robertson, Floyd Lisle, Lins Choate, . _________... . , __ .... , ..
cdL .. - M j i i.--------„ , ed With about 200 hens in the
Walter Moreland, Ruby Harris,___. ... . .. ....
Omd, Nance, Fred Cannon, Tb.lm. ‘"f *" j ^
Bums, Louie. H.rri.un, J—H B. *f 7T* T
„ . . 0 since entering the business. He
Stegall, Anne Cornish, Sumner . . . ,
" .. 0, . ’ ... , keeps two incubators at work all
Choate, Mary Choate, Ira Woods, .. , ,
t I T, . T t-e__ the time—one 600 capacity and the
Joe Morrison, Ruby Lee Edens, • . _ '
Ethel Holden, Ina Mae Price, Rufus . ' .
The Leader man is indebted to
McAfee and Robert Raburn.
CURTIS DICKENSON
ENTERS NATIONAL
_ ATHLETIC CONTEST
Mr. Hinson of the Hinson-Hockaday
Company for a visit to this great
chicken ranch this week. Any one
will enjoy a visit to this “sea of
chickens”. About 5 o’clock in the
ful, the bidder will go through with
the paving, according to 8pec]fi“- producU from, the »UL:„ Alter
tiona. - Tha-right is reserved "
Hughes’ No. 8 and will spud in at
an early date.
The New Domain Oil and Gas
Company is spudding its Linn No.
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The Lions had a very interesting! The Mutual Oil Compkpy has
meeting last Friday when two new finished the rig on the Costello No.
members were elected—Mr. Wilson, 1 and is drilling at 500 feet on the
auto salesman, Shamrock Motor • Glidewell No. 1.
the stockmen throughout the couxui Company and Mr. DeShields, Super- |l The Prairie Oil end Gas Company
ty will use a great deal of the Jntendent Absorbent Gasoline Plant, has made location for its Moran
r Othsyjagw member* received recent-
ly are S. Boyd Street, Gent’s Fur-
nishings; Graham P. Stewart, Cat-
seed can be brought from Throck-
morton and other sections not
served by railroads.
Our growing packing plant and
and marked: “Bid for paving por-
tions of the public square.” The
bids will be received until 8:30 p.
m., June 7, 1923.
SPECIAL TRAIN OF “
FT. WORTH BOOSTERS
PASS THROUGH CITY
studying the conditions closely it is
believed that the plant could be
operated profitably. The chamber
of commerce is interested in seeing
the plant in operation and will glad-
ly give all the information in its
possession to any one interested in
good oil mill property. — The ma-
chinery is almost new and with some
repairs could be put in operation
in a short time.
Sacks and Henderson’s River Bed
well No. 1-G has been shut down
tleman; A. L. Robertson, County, temporarily <jn account of high
Agent; Loyd N. Nash, Gulf Produc-
tion Company; Adler Edmoneton,
Signs; John Lynch, Marion Machine
Foundry and Supply Company; D.
C. Arrance Oil Field Salvage Com-
pany; R. V. Tidwell, Graham Na-
tional Bank; and R. Shumate, pro-
prietor barber shop.
A report from Superintendent
INTENSE INTEREST
IS DEVELOPING IN
BASEBALL LEAGUE
Cogdett oti Hie medals offered by hole wig started May ITT
the Lions for the highest average
made by pupils in the schools
throughout the year shows , that -the on the Kisinger No. 4.
contests have created interest in The Union Oil Company is drill-
the schools. Edith Rubenkoenig ing around 1200 feet on the McLaren
has won the medal in the grammar land.
water. Drilling operations on the
No. 2-G„ River Bed well has been
seriously hindered. They are drill-
ing at 2443 feet on their Williams
No. 4.
The Shamrock Oil Company had
trouble with its Glidewell No. 1 and
had to abandon the hole. After skid-
ding the rig fifteen feet south a new
The Sinclair Oil and Gas Com-
pany is drilling around 1550 feet
The special train carrying about
150 members of the Fort Worth
chamber of commerce arrived in
afternoon is the best time to see I Graham at 1:15 o clock Monday af-
the chickens as they are fed at temoon. Headed by the band,
which we understood was the high
they are
that time. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle
take great interest in the chickens
- and are glad to have visitors.
Curtis Dickenson left yesterday Mr. Wood is also raising a few
for Chicago where he will enter an turkeys and is adding a hog ranch
athletic meet by invitation. The in addition to his chickens.
Leader is not familiar with the _
nature of the mreting further than Reviva| Services
that no one is permitted to enter •
except by invitation and no one v lOSC SlinuHy Nl^ht
can receive an invitatino until he -
has made unusual records in ath- The revival services at the Pres- 'I and met the business men in their
school band, the Fort Worth men
and Graham men marched to the
square where the band gave a con-
cert, while the 7 “salesmen” from
Fort Worth were busy selling Fort
Worth. All the visitors wore hats
with a special band on which was
printed “Fort Worth”. Representa-
I tives of practically every industry
in Fort Worth were on the train
letics. Curtis won first place in byterian church which had been go-
the Interscholastic League Contest ing on for two weeks, closed last
in Austin recently. His invitation Sunday night. The churches of the
came as a result of winning state city turned out their services through
championship in this contest. courtesy. Several were turned away
He joined Superintendent Dins- as was the case the preceding Sun-
more in Wichita Falls and will day evening. Good crowds heard Dr.
make the trip with him and one A. F. Cunninghnm of Austin, Texas,
of the boys of the Electra High who did the preaching.
School who was also a winner in Dr. Cunningham is a Scotchman,
the State contest in Austin recently, coming over to America a few years
It is quite an honor to represent the ago. He speaks with a Scotch burr
State of Texas in these national con- atid his sermons were straight to
tests. . i the point, the preacher not attempt-
Curtis is the son of Mr. and Mrs, ing to fill in with stories and anec-
D. D. Dickenson of East Graham, dotes.
He is a Young county product and' On the last night, Dr. Cunning-
has made a good record in athletics, ham’s sermon, “From Earth to
He graduates from the Graham Heaven,” was dedicated to his moth-
High School this session and will er, long since departed,
enter some college or University in! Five additions to the thurch re-
September.
DECORATION EXERCISER
suited from the revival.
The Leader has learned incidental-
ly that Postmaster Long is not hav-
The Daughters of the Confed- ing very smooth sailing on his
eracy will meet with the Confed-j trip to Arkansas. The Goods have
•erate Veterans at the monument ln washed away all the stills and all
ttk Courtyard Park Sunday after-
nodn at 4 o'clock and march to the
cemetery to decorate the graves of
-Jfie deceased Veterans.
The public Is Invited to attend
these exwreises next Sunday, May
27. Bring flowers.
J. 0. McCloud visited his family
In Dallas this week.
line during the fifty minutes they
were here.
The band attracted considerable
attention. The boys were clad^in
tall Mexican sombreros, trimm
red, blue shirts, red sashes
vaquero trousers. Xbe hoys render-
ed excellent musif* *nd added much
to the pleasure fo the visit.
Fort Worth has a live bunch of
'“boosters” and Graham was glad to
have them stop with us. They real-
ly entertained Graham with their
unique way of selling Fort Worth.
Graham's chamber of commerce
went down 200 strong to entertain
1 their guests hut the “boosters” from
Fort WTorth were so full of pep
and enthusiasm that they almost
• took charge of Graham.
The special train was a double
header with ten cars and decorated
in true Fort Worth and West Texas
style. It left at 2:00 o’clock for
Breckenridge.
CEMETERY WORKING
the ftnuine article that “BUI” \Afl friend* and Interested partiea
Stewart has told him about so much *r* requested to meet at the Center
can not be found. He wrote back
that this it not the right time to
visit the mountains of Arkansas.
Ridge cemetery, Wednesday, May
80, for the purpose of putting the
grounds in order. The cemetery
Interest in the Sunday school
baseball league is growing each
week. The teams that did not show
good form at the beginning of the
season are getting better each week
as is evidenced by the last games.
The Baptists and Presbyterians
played last Thursday, May 17 and
the Baptists won by the score of
16 to 3. The Baptists got the lead
early and held it throughout the
game.
The most exciting game of the
season thus far was between the
Methodists and Baptists on Tuesday.
The Methodists made two scores the
first inning and three others during
the remaining innings. The Baptists
had not connected with the hall suf-
ficiently to make a score until the
last inning when they made six,
thereby tieing the score. Two more
innings were played but nei’then
j team was nble to cross t'.ie home
plate and the game was called off
on account qf darkness. The tie
will be played off later.
The game this afternoon was
probably the best game of the sea-
son. Tlie I’reahyterianu showed un-
usually good form and had it not
been for two costly errors would
have probably won the game. The
game ended with the Christians win-
ner by the score of 6 to 3. It was
a good game and thoroughly enjoy-
ed by the large crowd present.
Blanding of Teams.
Teams— P W L Pet.
Methodists .......... 3 3 0 1000
Christians .......u............ 4 3 1 760
Baptists .................... 3 1 2 333
Presbyterians ............ 4 0 4 000
The above table does not include
the game in Which the Baptists and
Methndista tied.
schools for three quarters. The last
quarter will close next week. Lucile
Norman and Willie Allen have both
won in different quarters in the
high school and it will take the
final examinations next week to
determine the winner in' the high
school. It is very noticeable that
the boys have not been able to
get into the contest.
A resolution was passed that
work begin at once on Liberty Park,
which includes the mountain on
which the standpipes are situated.
The Lions hope to have this park in
order within a short time. A trail
leading from East Fourth street,
just west of ,jthe Episcopal church
will be cleared to the top of the
mountain. A drinking fountain will
be installed on the top of the moun-
tain and several seats will be con-
structed on the highest peaks of
the mountain. This mountain is a
Bertrand et al are moving in
tools to drill their Lynn No. 1
deeper.
The old Southland Oil Company
taken over and now operated by
the Calmo Company is drilling
around 2600 feet on its McLaren
No. 1 The rig is up for the Mc-
Laren No. 1-B.
The Cosden Oil Company has
reached a depth of 2800 feet in its
Lynn No. 2.
Dyer et al are drilling at 3750
feet in their Whittenburg No. 2.
Hinson and McGuire are running
6-inch casing in their No. 2 in
Carter Bend. It is believed they
will get a 100-barrel well.
Mahlstedt & Mook are running
5-inch casing in their Williams No.
5 at 2670 feet.
McDowell et al are building their
third rig at their Costello No. 2.
Gas pockets have been encountered
favorite resort for pleasure seekers {unexpectedly and two rigs have
and when the Lions have finished j been burned. The well is now 1030
their improvements this will be one feet.
of the popular places in Graham. I Hie Mexia-Star Oil Company “ris
The Lions are very active in the! drilling at 100 feet in the Carter
w
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He is expected home- any day as aid roads leading to same are in
he says that there has been a water
spout every day fhr a long time
and he wants to see home again
where we do not have Svaterspouts.
need of work and everybody inter-
ested is requested to meet at the
cemetery early Wednesday morn-
ing, May 80,
promotion of everything for the
upbuilding uf Graham, They «re
“live wires”.
Judge P. M. Stine Dies
At Henrietta Wed.
Judge P. M. Stine, 68, a promi-
nent lawyer in judge in this sec-
tion for many years died at his
home in Henrietta Wednesday after
an illness of several weeks.
He was District Judge of the
30th judicial district many years
ago. He has many friends in Gra-
ham who regret to learn of his
death. The firm of Stine and Stine
had an office in Graham some time
and Judge Stine was In charge of
the office. He closed his office
No. 1.
The Mid-Kansas has reached 700
feet in its Gibslon No. 1.
The K<iuri-Seddon south-west of
Graham has a fine showing of oil
and it is reported that 75 barrel
pumper may be obtained at 3300
feet.
The Whitehead-Johnson No. 1,
one mile east of Graham, has a good
showing of oil at 3900 feet.
Rig ia up on the Grubbs land
about ten miles north of Graham.
The Kellogg-Rubenkoenig, eleven
miles north-east of Graham, report-
ed anotherr flow of oil this week.
The Kellogg Drilling Company is
also drilling on the Sanders land
just south of Loring.
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BANKS CLOSE MAY 30
May 30 is Decoration day and all
the banks of the city will be closed.
The public is asked to bear this in
taind as all the banks will be closed
on that day.
Drilling ll active in the shallow
field around Olney but we were
here about a year ago and return- unable to get a drilling report from
ed to Henrietta on account of fail-
ing health. ' Surviving are the
widow, three sons and two daught-
The body was buried today
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